Freedom Child turned in his first breeze since romping in
Belmont
Park’s Grade 2 Peter Pan earlier this month,
covering five furlongs over the main track Monday morning in 59.87
under exercise rider John Mason.

“I thought he went
super,” said Tom Albertrani, who trains the Malibu Moon ridgling for
West Point Thoroughbreds, St. Elias Stable, and Spendthrift Farm. “The
rider sat there with a nice hold of him and he looked
like he was just galloping down the lane. We just wanted to let him go
in hand. Typically he can get aggressive when he’s feeling good, so the
rider had a nice hold of him early on. It looked like he was just
running through the bridle the first three-eighths,
and he just gave him a little slack down the lane. He responded well
and did it all nice and easy.”

Albertrani said he was considering an easy workout for the ridgling before the June 8 Belmont Stakes.

“This week he’ll just
do some light galloping and maybe a real easy work next time or a good
strong gallop out. I just don’t want him to do too much on top of the
race. Today was a pretty strong work, so we’ll
just kind of let him get there.”